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Penkridge in 1868
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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]
"PENKRIDGE, a parish in the E. and W. divisions of the hundred of Cuttlestone, county Stafford, 6 miles S. of Stafford, and 9-11 from Wolverhampton. It has two stations on the London and North-Western railway. It is situated on the river Penk, from which it takes its name; and on the Staffordshire and Worcestershire canal. It is supposed by Camden to have been the ancient Pennocrucium on the Roman way, Watling Street. The town, which from its low situation is subject to frequent inundations, consists principally of two streets. (There is more of this description).
An 1868 Gazetteer description of the following places in Penkridge is to be found on a supplementary page.
- Coppenhall
- Drayton
- Dunston
- Levedale
- Longridge
- Lovedale
- Lynehill
- Mitton
- Otherton
- Pillaton
- Rodbaston
- Stretton
- Water-Eaton
- Whiston
- Wolgarstone
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]